Assessment Meeting For Parents

Mrs Gould Assistant Headteacher

27th March 2019

Aims:

Transition to Key Stage One

Statutory assessment arrangements

Activity displays and questions

Transition to Year One

o Same classes as Reception

o Year One teachers establishing relationships with

children

o Teaching Assistant support

o Reception and Year One teachers formal meeting

o Longer adult directed tasks in the summer term

o Familiar environment

o Parents – meet the new teacher

Why do we assess children at the end

of Reception?

Legal requirement

Reporting to parents and Year One teachers

Improve outcomes for children

Prime Areas Specific Areas

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Communication and

Language • Physical Development

• Literacy • Mathematics • Understanding the

World • Expressive Arts and

Design

Foundation Stage Curriculum

Early Years

Foundation Stage

Early Learning Goals Expected and Exceeding Statements

Personal, Social and

Emotional Development

• Making Relationships

• Self-Confidence and Self-Awareness

• Managing Feelings and Behaviour

Communication and

Language

• Listening and Attention

• Understanding

• Speaking

Physical Development

• Moving and Handling

• Health and Self-Care

Literacy

• Reading

• Writing

Mathematics

• Numbers

• Shape, Space and Measure

Understanding the World

• People and Communities

• The World

• Technology

Expressive Arts and Design

• Exploring and using media and

materials

• Being imaginative

What will be reported?

Emerging - 1

Expected – 2

Exceeding – 3

Good Level of Development – GLD

Five Ways 2018 78% National 2018 72%

Characteristics of Effective Learning

• Observations: - Child initiated tasks - Enhanced Continuous Provision - Independent activities

• At the point of learning ‘magic moments’ - Talking with and listening to children - Work produced - Parents and other settings

How are children assessed?

Characteristics of Effective

Learning

Playing and exploring

– engagement

Active learning –

motivation

Creating and thinking

critically – thinking

• Finding out and

exploring

• Playing with what

they know

• Being willing to

‘have a go’

• Being involved and

concentrating

• Keeping trying

• Enjoying achieving

what they set out to

do

• Having their own

ideas

• Making links

• Choosing ways to

do things

Please take some time to look at some

of the activities your children enjoy in

class with us and staff will be very happy

to answer any questions you may have.

Please fill in an evaluation form Thank you for coming!